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American literature

...social fiction, and postmodern irony; Jonathan Franzen’s
The Corrections (2001, National Book Award) and
Freedom (2010), both family portraits; and Don DeLillo’s
Underworld (1997), a brooding, resonant, oblique account of the Cold War era as seen through the eyes of both fictional characters and historical figures. All three novels testify to a belated...

discussed in biography

DeLillo received significant acclaim for the sprawling novel
Underworld (1997), which provides a commentary on American history and culture in the Cold War era, in part by tracing the imagined journeys of the baseball that New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson hit for a pennant-winning home run in 1951. DeLillo’s subsequent works of fiction include
The Body...